The rain was really great over the weekend and I had hoped that the clouds over Mohave and around the Eastern Sierra Nevada would be really amazing.  With that in mind, I left home at 3:30am today and went up highway 14, just above Red Rock Canyon State Park, hoping to get some great photos.

Well…the clouds weren’t very impressive.  It was a good sunrise, but I was thinking that it would’ve had a little more “WOW” factor to it.  Then again, every sunrise should be celebrated, with or without impressive clouds.  We only get so many of them in a lifetime, especially when around the Eastern Sierra Nevada.

On a more positive note, I did find some other really great areas to photograph in the future.  The reason why I didn’t photograph them today was because I was a little tired from not having enough sleep and I also want to keep a look out for weather patterns that produce some nice sky elements for the photographs.

Below is one of the sunrise shots from this morning and the other is a random shot of highway 14 facing north toward highway 395.  I did like the feeling of standing in the middle of highway 14 with nobody around for miles; it felt kind of isolated but relaxing at the same time.

There’s nothing like a sunrise with complete silence around you.